Does tickling have something to do with deep thinking?

[pfromptown]

Ok I was bopping the bishop to a great story a while back and the writer said something along the lines of 'there was no harm in his fetish, he had heard that some men look beyond the common man's desire for the breast, to the foot' (That probably isn't very accurate but it was something like that) and i had to stop immediately because it just threw me into deep thought. My personal relation to that is very high: I am a hugely deep thinker. All the people I know who have fetishes are deep thinkers also, so I was wondering if anybody else was and if they think it's related. Of course, there's gonna be plenty of people who don't think too much, and I love that too, but I just thought It'd be interesting to see if the world of tickling agreed or disagreed?

 

[melbtickler]

First...what is 'bopping the bishop'.

Second. Hmm I do consider myself a deep thinker. Perhaps sexuality has something to do with it but it would ever be just a theory, consider doing an accurate sample study - impossible. I thought, that perhaps most of us were aware that we were different at a young age - with our fetish. So we ponder the question as to why we are different at a younger age and analyse ourselves more and others. We have to hide our desires more, so are more clever at extracting 'tickling' situations from others and noting their reactions into our little 'human database' LOL. But then I thought about others who were different from the mainstream sexually. I thought, well that means gay people must also be very deep thinkers and I thought, gee I know a lot of smart gay people but then I've known a lot of really dumb ones too. So, in answer to your question I guess it is an individual thing....nice to think otherwise but no.

As with the foot thing versus breasts. I chatted to a stranger on the net once about my foot fetish. The girl I was trying to chat-up thought I was really weird. I argued that, well isn't it strange guys like breasts and women like guys sucking them? No she replied. But I said, well that is exactly what babies do to their mothers, isn't that more creepy than guys liking feet? (I don't think kissing breasts creepy btw it's just an example as she described foot fetishism as 'creepy')
She said it's just different. I said why and she said it just was. Then I said what about guys who are into buts or legs is that OK.
Yes was the response.
Then why not feet. It's just different she said.
I found this very odd and thought it showed massive inhibitions about the perceptions of our bodies and what society deems sexual. I think society really has shaped much of our sexuality, right down to the way men and women behave and we are caught in it like a fly in a web.

OOoohhh too much deep thinking LOL.
How was that response?

 

[amk714]

First...what is 'bopping the bishop'.

If I'm not mistaken, that phrase refers to masturbation.

Does tickling have something to do with deep thinking? I would say that having such a fetish does force us to think more about our sexuality and how we relate to the world at large. But I agree with Melbtickler that it's an individual thing. The tickling community is as diverse a group as any other one out there. There are ticklers/ticklees who are quite philosophical, to the point that others would describe them as being academic and cerebral. Then there are those who just want to have a good time and party. However, I'd say the majority of us are of average or above-average intelligence, and are deep thinkers sometimes, but not all of the time. I also agree that having a foot and/or tickling fetish is no different from having a fetish for breasts or whatever. Good question, Pfromptown. Thanks for asking it, and have a Happy New Year. 😀

 

[Hiryu]

If I'm not mistaken, that phrase refers to masturbation.

It sounds more like raping a priest.

 

[amk714]

Wrong, Hiryu. 😛

http://www.encyclopedia-of-sex.com/displayarticle718.html

 

[Vae]

Let me say that when I saw the expression "bopping the bishop" I laughed completely outloud. Thumbs up, man.

I think it's true that some of us tend to be deep thinkers because our fetish often engages us to do so. It's odd, just like all fetishes, and a lot of us, myself included, take a moment (or twelve) to think about what is it that makes us like tickling in a sexual way. I think we'd be nothing but monkeys if we didn't think and consider it deeply. I don't know if every ticklephile is a deep thinker -- I'm sure there's a moron or three among us -- but it is common in that the fetish itself opens up many ideas on why we are turned on by such a random act.

I loved this question. Most thought-probing one I've seen so far. 🙂

 

[Michael514]

I myself am a deep thinker about almost everything, especially when it comes to my foot/tickle fetish. I think of how it would be nice to posess those feet, is she ticklish, etc. I read alot of these posts and they really get my train of thought going. I'm sure alot of us are.

 

[Ignatz]

Deep thought demands solitude. Those who are hagridden by a passion as difficult to satisfy as this one usually have solitude in spades. Here endeth the lesson.

 

[Storm_Cat]

Deep thought demands solitude. Those who are hagridden by a passion as difficult to satisfy as this one usually have solitude in spades. Here endeth the lesson.

I'm so deep I'm a bottomless pit ... !!

Even when I'm around a bazillion people ... I'm still in solitude ... just like at the bar tonight ... it was standing room only ... but there was no one there ... !! (only those who are truely deep will understand this)

 

[slaphead13]

Deep thinking

Great discussion - DOH - I just realized I must have "hidden shallows"

Happy New Year anyway

 

[pfromptown]

On an unserious note, I can confirm that Bopping the bishop refers to masturbation:


Thank you everyone for answering. I even found the shortest answers deeply interesting, it's nice to know that there's other people like me in the world because sometimes I just don't feel I have a prayer. I particularly liked Storm_Cat's.

Moving back on to the subject I would say I agree that we are probably forced into deeper thought than would usually be 'called for', or than we would like to ponder, but we evaluate humans much more when we have to evaluate ourselves. I wrote a poem recently I was quite pleased with called 'whatever turns you on but that', which basically says it all (and which I won't share). I myself am notoriously weird, but calling someone with a fetish 'weird' as an insult is like calling The Rocky Horror Picture Show 'gay' as an insult. NO. SHIT. SHERLOCK. HOLMES. I think it's more likely that people who are deep thinkers will have a fetish, than it is that people with a fetish will be deep thinkers, but I think the guy who thinks will look beyond the breast is an interesting slant on it (Even though it sounds like sugarcoating to me). What is a fetish anyway? Agaianst what everybody else believes is correct? Well, hell with that, we wouldn't have lasted this long if people weren't a little different. I agree that deep thought is usually provoked by solitude and the correlation between the remoteness of the fetish and deep thought is probably undenaible.

Almost forgot: Happy New Year, wherever you are!

 

[TickledToDeath]

For what it's worth, yes I too am a very deep thinker. Almost constantly. My mind never stops and was the cause of some seriuous bouts of insomnia and still is from time to time. I am the perfect candidate for Lunesta.
Been like this all my life. Been into tickling all my life too for that matter.
Food for thought 😱

 

[lilwolf]

My tickling fetish realy hit home with me my freshman year of HS. And durring that time. I was very much a deep thinker. Not only that. But I went through a state of depresion. Most deep thinkers from what I have seen, seem to fall into depression easier than those around them. And on that note. I have heard somewhere that depression and tickling have some sort of coralation to one another. Not sure if that is true.

 

[Hiryu]

I too am a deep thinker. Sometimes a little too deep like "What if I'm the only person on earth who is real and what if everyone else is fake? Since I'm not them and can't be inside of their bodies, looking out, how can I truely know that they are real?" or "What if the reason I'm so miserable is that I did something really evil and my punishment is to live here on earth as a human being who suffers without knowing why he is suffering?" or "What if I'm God and I created everything then, turned myself into a simple human being with no memory of having been God so that I could live as an ordinary being who can learn instead of already knowing everything?"

EDIT: As far as tickling being part of it. I don't know. Maybe, since being fascinated with it is considered unusual or odd. That could set one wondering about why they like it and such wondering could lead to other wonderings. It does make sense in a way.

 

[melbtickler]

Having read more of these posts I think that yes, many of us are deep thinkers. But, we must be careful and not assume that simply because we have a fetish we are deep thinkers. Assumptions are all too often made. While I totally agree that solitude etc does provide the basis for deep thought, a tickle fetishist you may not be. Otherwise every or many philosophers / writers / Psychologists /Mathematicians on the planet would be tickle fetishists and it would be more mainstream.
I have a few gay friends who have thought and feel that every man is gay is someway or is a little. I can tell you rest assured dear readers that homosexuality does not interest me one bit, and sometimes I think if I was gay it would be easier as so many people are, as opposed to tickle fetishists of which we are few in comparison. I say to my gay friends, sorry but I'm not. Many don't believe it and continue to live in a fantasy world where every straight man on the planet secretly is. This assumption we have to be careful of in a similar manner to assuming that every tickle fetishist is a deep thinker. Yes, I am a deep thinker, but I've reads posts on various forums and found that there are also a lot of really dumb, ignorant tickle fetishists too.
A nice thought that we are deep thinkers and it may bring solice, but we're all individuals and I don't necessarily believe intelligence is directly linked to our sexuality. Yes, socialisaion plays a part, in reference to solitude etc, but once again, I think this is different for everybody.
But at least some of us are deep thinkers and we can chat here and not feel so damn lonely about our fetish.

 

[pfromptown]

It is interesting also that when I was happy, I denied my fetish and ignored it, kidding myself (like many do) that I was normal. During this period I did not consider myself a fetishist and I damn sure wasn't a deep thinker, or if I was I never embraced it. I started to think at first and then accepting my fetish soon followed. They were certainly linked for me but I have encountered many 'party!' ticklers who never think at all, lucky bastards! I wouldn't say ti was absolute but I definately think they are connected.

 

[darvon96]

Think deeply about this ...

This thread makes me feel like I’m in a bizarre Dr. Scholl’s commercial;

"Are you deep thinking?", "I'm deep thinking", "You're so not deep thinking".

In my opinion, tickling is a primordial human activity that transcends all social, ethnic, religious, or philosophical boundaries. I don't believe you can establish any correlation to our increased propensity for tickling to anything other than being somewhere around the 99th percentile of the normal curve for the entire human population.

Darv

 

[Red_Feather]

I personally am a very deep thinker, I tend to enjoy philosophical and political issues. I am not sure about this idea of fetish defining personal nature. Possibly it is the other way round, and that the fetish is the product of some other, more basic aspect of my own personality.

Unfortunately, my experiences with tickling have been few and far between, and I haven't been able to explore it very deeply. 😛